Mignon McLaughlin Quotes

Multitasking divides your attention and leads to confusion and weakened focus.

No more than a surgeon can operate while tweeting can you reach your potential with one ear in, one ear out. You actually have to reacquaint yourself with concentration. We all do.

Multi-tasking arises out of distraction itself.

There's no such thing as multitasking.

I think people who multitask pay a huge price. They think they're being extra productive, and I think when you multitask so much you don't have time to think about anything deeply, you are giving the world an advantage you shouldn't do, and practically everybody is drifting into that mistake.

I think that we get so distracted with our smartphones... It takes your body and your brain time to switch between tasks. If we can focus on what we're doing, we'll be more productive at that task.

Don't think to hunt two hares with one dog.

I can do only one thing at a time, but I can avoid doing many things simultaneously.

I find it so easy to get distracted - I try not to do more than one thing at any one time.

Task switching is hard because we do not control what is on our mind. Despite our efforts, the original task continues to occupy our mental bandwidth. Although we can control where our time goes, we cannot fully control how our bandwidth is allocated.

Experts say you can't concentrate on more than one task at a time.

If you try to multitask in the classic sense of doing two things at once, what you end up doing is quasi-tasking. It's like being with children. You have to give it your full attention for however much time you have, and then you have to give something else your full attention.

Even though we think we're getting a lot done, ironically, multitasking makes us demonstrably less efficient.

I am not a multi-tasker. When I do one thing, I fully concentrate on it and leave the other thing aside.

It's better to do one thing at a time and give your full concentration.

I multitask and always have the TV on in the background. If I need to focus, I generally have to turn off the TV.

You wouldn't read 'Anna Karenina' and try to work on the computer at the same time, would you?

If people would reflect that one can only do one thing at a time and therefore there is never more than one thing to do at a time, there would be less fatigue in the world.

It's a skill that people are born with. Either you're a focuser or you're a multitasky person. I am a full-focus person.

I think there's too much mult-tasking going on. I think people need to quiet down and focus and be still more.

I find that I can't work and listen to radio - either I find I don't like it and it distracts me, or I do like it and I want to listen to it.

The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once.

I just want to focus on one thing at a time.

To be honest, I don't enjoy watching movies much when I'm working. They tend to fall apart on me a bit.

I'm a person of whim, and easily distracted. I don't like multitasking. When I'm doing one thing, I like to do just that thing.